Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Kenneth Buxton and Bianca Reed The disgraceful duo pictured above, former greyhound trainer Kenneth Buxton and his girlfriend Bianca Reed, are among the worst animal abusers that the Victorian Racing Tribunal in Victoria has ever seen. These are not my words. They’re those that the eminent Chairman of the Tribunal Justice John Bowman wrote in […]
In February of this year Victorian trot trainer Paul Cauchi was convicted in the Sunbury Magistrates court on counts of failing to provide veterinary care to two horses, and aggravated cruelty to the pair. Cauchi’s offending was particularly egregious. One of the victim horses had two catastrophically fractured legs and burn lesions to both; the […]
The accused trained, managed and housed harness racing horses at his registered training establishment. The accused noticed that a colt with very swollen legs. The colt was unable to weight bear on either leg and was unable to stand comfortably. The accused did not provide the colt with any veterinary treatment after he noticed that […]
Frankie Ferocious wasn’t the only Jason Grimson trained horse that failed miserably at Albion Park last night. Hot and Treacherous totally bombed out too, with the triple Menange winner who started favorite in the million dollar Nullarbor slot race at Gloucester Park in April performing miserably in the Mr Feelgood behind Leap To Fame to […]
For months Frankie Ferocious was odds-on favorite to win last night’s Group 1 Rising Sun at Albion Park, and given his victories in the Group 2 Victorian 4YO Bonanza in the summer and the Group 1 Chariots of Fire in the autumn, so he should have been. In fact on those performances his right price […]
Take a look at the three short clips below. They were taken at the starts of races 4 and 5 at Oak Park on Friday, and race 1 at the same track on Saturdy. In particular watch what the barrier attendant in the red vest does. His name is Kyle Sharp. WTF? Since when were […]
Bruce Clark has written the excellent piece on the Darren Weir sentencing hearing republished below. You can find this and a range of other brilliant stories on Bruce’s website clarkofthecourse.com A Victorian Racing Tribunal supposed penalty hearing descended into some farce as another disqualification period was delivered but no absolute decision reached. Darren Weir will […]
The Darren Weir case has taken a strange twist, with submissions from his barrister to be heard on when his seried of concurrent 2-year disqualification will actually start. Does it commence from the date Weir’s previous disqualification ended in February 2023, which would mean that it would expire in February next year and that the […]
Justice John Bowman on the Victorian Racing Tribunal’s penalty decision in the Darren Weir case is to be handed down on Friday morning. Just for a lark we though we’d frame a few markets on what sentence Weir gets. ALL IN BETTING $3.00 NO PENALTY In this scenario Weir gets no penalty over and above […]
As hard as this may be to believe, the horse pictured – the team Yole trained 11yo Hez Razor Sharp – last raced only 16 days ago at a meeting in Launceston. It was his 299th race start, and to no-one’s surprise given the condition that the horse is in, it finished 2nd last in […]
